A brown bag presentation I gave at the Guardian in London, England to explain some of the reasons and best practices that should be applied to successful web development.

1. Creating
Happy Little
Web Sites
Maintainability,
Performance and
Predictability
Christian Heilmann, Guardian Brown Bag , London, June 2008

2. Happy Web Sites are working
web sites.

3. The definition of a working
web site is out of your hands.

4. You have no clue who uses
your web sites with what and
in which state.

5. This is 100% fact.
Deal with it.

6. How can you deal with it?

7. Keeping the damage as low
as possible.

8. Don’t rely on anything.

9. Let those who care about a
certain technology deal with
it.

10. Without caring for the
technologies we have to use
to create web sites we will
build unhappy web sites.